OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Social Policy & Administration is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)

Article	Citations
Exploring the Disciplinary State: The Pace and Pattern of ‘Getting Tough’ in Denmark, Germany and the United Kingdom Since 1990	35
Digital First? Understanding Citizens' Communication Needs in Digital Public Encounters	32
Reforming Long‐Term Care Provision and Work in Post‐Pandemic Times: Scope and Drivers of Policy Change in the Spanish Decentralised System	29
Research handbook on leave policy: Parenting and social inequalities in a global perspective. By IvanaDobrotić, SonjaBlum, AlisonKoslowski (Eds.), Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar. 2022	26
Perceptions of Poverty and Policy Preferences: The Contribution of Q Methodology	24
Austerity from the left: Social democratic parties in the shadow of the great recession. By BjörnBremer, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (2023). £83.00 (hardback). ISBN: 9780192872210	22
Jesse Hajer & John Loxley (2021). Social service, private gain: The political economy of social impact bonds, Toronto: University of Toronto Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4875‐0328‐4 (cloth),	20
The politics of social policies in Portugal: Different responses in times of crises	20
Understanding migrants' attitudes towards state pension: The role of length of stay and settlement intention	20
User‐Centred Design in Child Welfare: Importance of an Anti‐Racism Lens	20
Governing Personal Assistance in Three East Asian Countries: Policy Choices and the Experiences of Disabled People	19
Fertility‐based employment discrimination and family policy: Evidence from a field experiment	19
Street‐Level Bureaucrats Manufacturing Migrants: An Implementation Study of Policy Measures to Address Statelessness in the Dominican Republic	18
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Introduction: The Dynamics of Migration Policy Implementation: The Frontline and Beyond	16
Emerging modes of digitalisation in the delivery of welfare‐to‐work: Implications for street‐level discretion	15
Divergent Institutional Logics—Implementing Supported Employment in Hybrid Contexts of Danish Public Employment Services	15
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Spatiality of Service Delivery in the Covid19 Pandemic: Transcending Spatial Boundaries or Accommodating Logistical Challenges?	14
Dualisation, education and the knowledge economy: Comparing Germany and South Korea	14
Social risks and active social citizenship—A cross‐national comparison of long‐term care policies for older people in European welfare states	14
Food insecurity: The resilient, but “silent poverty” perspectives of older ethnic minority individuals within UK communities	14
Welfare state regimes and social policy resistance to fiscal consolidations	14
Social investment, labour market participation and public debt sustainability: An empirical analysis of European countries	13
Looking beyond the workplace: Trade unions and the politics of poverty in Italy	13

Navigating Digital Welfare: A Multi‐Level Maze?	12
Revisiting the role of social work in the substantial realization of social rights in local welfare systems: Transforming and changing the rules of the institutional game?	12
Handbook on social protection systemsby EstherSchüring, MarkusLoewe (Eds.), Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2021. ISBN: 9781839109102; £375.00 (Hardback)	12
Constantly changing Nordic welfare states: A Bermuda triangle?	11
Education and active labour market policy complementarities in promoting employment: Reinforcement, substitution and compensation	10
Beyond Formal Coverage: The True Reach of Family Policies in Latin America	10
Upskilling as integration policy: Making the most of refugees' human capital in a context of skill shortage	10
The role of elected politicians in donor‐led social protection: Insights from Zambia	10
Verification of policy information and citizen attitudes toward government under COVID‐19 pandemic: Evidence from survey experiment in South Korea	10
Predictors of satisfaction with digital follow‐up in Norwegian Labor and Welfare Administration: A sequential mixed‐methods study	10
Implementing individual placement and support in Norway. From vocational rehabilitation to an employment scheme	10
Immigration and social assistance: Evidence from the Norwegian welfare state	9
Social policy: A critical and intersectional analysis By Fiona WilliamsMickCarpenterPolicy Press, 2021. ISBN: 9781509540396; £18.99 (pbk)	8
Screening for Asylum at Airports: The Implementation of the ‘Manifestly Unfounded’ Filter in France and Germany, 1980–2005	8
Social policy learning inside the World Bank: The case of multi‐pillar pension reform	8
The industrialisation thesis, revisited: Understanding welfare expansion in China through social expenditure data (2000–2019)	8
Benefits Conditionality in the United Kingdom: Is It Common, and Is It Perceived to Be Reasonable?	8
Improving the Likelihood of Positive Outcomes for Survivors of Sexual Violence, Considering Intersections Between Justice, Gender, and Trauma	7
Protected against all odds? A mixed‐methods study on the risk of welfare sanctions for immigrants in Germany	7
Beyond financial constraints: The politics of Irish health system reform in the aftermath of the great recession	7
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Justifications for not sanctioning welfare clients: Social workers' implementation of the “wastage of resources” sanctioning directive in Poland	7
To Comply or Not to Comply, That Is the Question: The Street‐Level Implementation of Jurisprudence by Migration Officers	7
“You didn't ask, so you don't know”: Information and administrative burden in social benefit claims	7
The Wage Stop and Restricting Benefit Income in the United Kingdom: Discretion, Wages and Hardship	7
The Discretionary Power of Street‐Level Bureaucrats From the Perspective of Illusio	7
National charitable fundraising for the NHS, 1948–2023	6
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The impact of universal credit rollout on homelessness assistance need in Scottish local authorities	6
Left partisan politics and pension privatisation at the crossroads of political legacy and contemporary politics (1980–2017)	6
How to Fix the Welfare State? Some Ideas for Better Social Services. By PaulSpicker, Policy Press, 2022, 162pp. £27.99	6
TheEU'swork‐lifebalance directive: Institutional change of father‐specific leave across member states	6
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The moral, the political and social licence in digitally‐driven family policy and intervention: Parents negotiating experiential knowledge and ‘other’ families	6
National health services of Western Europe: Challenges, reforms and future perspectives. By GuidoGiarelli, MikeSaks (Eds.), London: Routledge. 2024. £130.00; hardback. ISBN: 9780367689599	6
European Union Youth Policy: Moving Beyond Mobility	6
The Making of a Left‐Behind Class Educational Stratification, Meritocracy and Widening Participation. by FredPowell, MargaretScanlon, PatrickLeahy, HilaryJenkinson and	6
The Use and Impact of Well‐Being Metrics on Policymaking: Developers' and Users' Perspectives in Scotland and Italy	6
Christopher Deeming. Minimum income standards and reference budgets, UK: Policy Press. ISBN 978‐1‐4473‐5295‐2; pp 351	5
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Implementing Proximate Welfare Programs in Weak Institutional Contexts: Lessons From the Global South	5
The politics of the welfare state in Turkey: How social movements and elite competition created a welfare state. By ErdemYörük, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press. 2022. pp. 221. 29.25 USD (paper	5
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Market shaping: Understanding the role of non‐government actors in social care quasi‐market stewardship	5
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Introduction: 20 years of welfare reform in China (2000–2020): Challenges from developmentalism to COVID‐19	5
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How Do Non‐Standard Work and Labour Market Policy Spending Shape Preferences for Training Versus Unemployment Benefits in Budgetary Trade‐Offs?	5
‘Money anxiety’: Understanding HE students' experiences of the cost‐of‐living crisis	5
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Peter H. Lindert (2021). Making social spending work, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN: 9781108784467, £25	5
Delivering on the European Pillar of Social Rights: Towards a needs‐based distribution of the European social funds?	5
Explaining Social Policy Expansion: The Curious Case of the Justin Trudeau Era in Canada	5
Managing the Artificial Intelligence Revolution: Perceived Risks and Social Policy Preferences Among Firm‐Level Decision Makers	4
State‐Crafted Dominant Fictions: How Bad Documents, Gut Feelings, and Selective Intelligence Shape Border Control in Europe	4
Do you know to whom you pay your taxes? The case of decentralised Spain	4
Social rights in EU and its member states	4
Emergency welfare states in action: Social policy adaptations to COVID‐19 in the Czechia, Hungary and Slovakia	4
Work and alienation in the platform economy. Amazon and the power of organisation. By SarrahKassem, Bristol University Press. 2023. £85.00 (hbk). ISBN: 9781529226546	4
Beyond path dependency: Analysing Indonesia's social policy responses to two crises	4
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A decade of outsourcing in health and social care in England: What was it meant to achieve?	4
Explaining Variation in Decision‐Making Authority for Care Managers in a Decentralised Welfare State	4
Constrained ‘choices’: Optional familism and educational divides in work‐family arrangements	4
Program Design to Ease Administrative Burden in Times of Crisis: An Evaluation of Two Emergency Aid Programs in Los Angeles	4
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Living with financial insecurity: Analysing the impact of the cost‐of‐living crisis on older ethnic minority people	4
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A path to professional capability: The Career Start Programme in Bulgaria as a strategy to youth development	3
The Effects of the COVID‐19 Pandemic on School‐to‐School Transitions. A Study of Lower Secondary School Graduates	3
A job trial subsidy for youth: Cheap labour or a screening device?	3
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Addressing hardship and climate change: Citizens' perceptions of costs of living, social inequalities and priorities for policy	3
Welfare service reforms: Arab minority welfare bureau managers assess the outcomes	3
The Role of Tax‐Benefit Systems in Reducing the Gender Income Gap in Latin America	3
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Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism: Current developments of the poverty‐aware paradigm	3
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Moving Beyond Regulation: Cross‐Sectoral Coordination in Providing Holistic Care in For‐Profit Residential Homes for Disabled People	3
Gender Equality in Conditional Cash Transfer Designs. A Disappearing Policy Recipe in Latin America and the World Bank? (1st Edition). By NoraNagels, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. $119.99 (hardc	3
Social protection and state‐citizen relations: A review of the literature	3
Allowance or service: Public attitudes toward childcare‐related family policies in China	3
Welfare state change as a double movement: Four decades of retrenchment and expansion in compensatory and employment‐oriented policies across 21 high‐income countries	3
Living Wages in Latin America: An Assessment of Disparities and a Stakeholder Roadmap for Action	3
Nordic earner‐carer politics: A comparative and historical analysis (1st edition). By Anne LiseEllingsæter, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. 2024. £95 (hardback). ISBN: 9781802207071	3
Crisis in the UK National Health Service: What does it mean, and what are the consequences?	3
Welfare conditionality and policy contingencies of school‐allowance retractions in Sweden	3
A scooping review of Scandinavian studies of sick‐listed' and social insurance officers' experiences of their encounters'	3
Alternative targeting methods for social assistance programs: Evidence from Tunisia	3
The Limits of the Possible: Third Sector Employability Support for Vulnerable Users and the Challenge of Job Quality	3
Women–state relations: The gendered politics of social protection provisioning in Zambia	3
What Can Be Learned at the Intersection of Crisis Management and Administrative Burdens? Evidence From a Systematic Review of the Governance of Australia’s National Disability Insurance Scheme During	3
Delegated Governance in Segmented Welfare Regimes: How Non‐State Provision Shaped Childcare Policy Outcomes in Mexico	3
The ‘two lives’ of Esping‐Andersen and the revival of a research programme: Gender equality, employment and redistribution in contemporary social policy	3